New York City
Personality
Jumaane Williams is ready to be public advocate, assuming there’s a vacancy
Defeated in his bid for lieutenant governor, Jumaane Williams has set his sights on the office of public advocate.
Donald Trump
Policy
Why Donald and Fred Trump got away with it
There is little preventing landlords from operating similar schemes to Trump’s to jack up rents on regulated apartments.
New York City
Policy
Bronx Point waterfront project is more than affordable housing
The Bronx Point waterfront project could reshape the South Bronx.
New York City
Policy
What does Universal Rent Control mean?
Democratic primary candidates have struggled to define how they would institute Universal Rent Control.
New York City
Opinion
Homelessness is a housing problem
Rising rents are driving New York City’s latest homelessness crisis. Here’s how to fix it.
Housing
Politics
Inspectors reported contamination in water tanks. NYCHA had it erased.
Some of the worst water tanks in New York City are in the city’s public housing.
Housing
Politics
Myrie campaign ad attacks ex-IDC Hamilton’s real estate ties
State Senate candidate Zellnor Myrie is out with his first campaign video, and in it he accuses his rival, state Sen. Jesse Hamilton, of being in the pocket of real estate developers.
New York City
Opinion
A pied-à-terre tax is smart policy – and it’s constitutional
City Hall is wrong: New York can tax wealthy absentee owners.
Bill de Blasio
Policy
Torres critical of federal NYCHA settlement
Some public housing tenants’ advocates applaud, but not the City Council Oversight and Investigations Committee chairman
Housing
Policy
Mayor’s Charter Revision Commission to tackle land use issues
Mayor’s Charter Revision Commission to tackle land use issues and says its focus is broader than campaigns and elections.
New York City
Politics
Why you shouldn’t open your high-rise office windows
New York City is imposing new building regulations starting next year, where all residences, even single-family homes, will have to have ventilation systems.
Bill de Blasio
Politics
Homelessness takes center stage at NYC budget hearing
New York City officials defended the increased funding they have received to combat homelessness and their request for more money to serve the record shelter population, even as they face fresh scrutiny over the use of hotel shelters.
Andrew Cuomo
Politics
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the leftest of them all?
Cynthia Nixon is trying to get to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s left. But is there any space there?
Politics
Housing
5 questions about Shola Olatoye leaving NYCHA, answered
The public housing authority's chairwoman unexpectedly stepped down. Here's why.
New York City
Opinion
Jared Kushner lied to NYC because he could get away with it
The Kushner Cos. filing of false paperwork on rent-regulated units and efforts to expel tenants is a failure of not just the companys integrity, but of state and local law. With the incentive structure of state rent regulations and a two-tiered legal system in which corporations get a slap on the wrist for ripping off the public while the poor go to jail for drug possession, actions like Kushner’s are inevitable.
Housing
Opinion
NYCHA tenants deserve rent abatements for missing heat
The law requires a refund for uninhabitable conditions.
Politics
Andrew Cuomo
Cuomo takes on guns, NYCHA and the Percoco verdict
Gov. Andrew Cuomo joined students walking out to protest gun violence. Afterward, he took questions from the press on the conviction of Joseph Percoco, his former senior aide.
Housing
Opinion
3 myths Trump’s budget proposal wants you to believe about public housing
NYCHA would suffer under Trump's policies that are based on false premises.
Housing
Politics
A short-lived shutdown, Howe he did it and no NYCHA apology
The top political headlines, from New Yorkers' role in the short-lived federal shutdown to the latest in the Joe Percoco trial.
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